Ceci n'est pas une pipe

I just put online the latest version of the script that I made last week to show on all Internet sites of the EV-K2-CNR data from the sensor located at South Col, on the slopes of Everest. The information is transferred every hour directly from the station scientific ABC Pyramid on our server and then revised in a more intelligible. I'm also making a version in Flash that show a larger amount of information even clearer There's graphic indicators. Stay tuned!

What we see is an image captured at over 5,000 meters of altitude! This is a frame of the movie that I recorded on Friday afternoon during the test transmission from the Italian scientific station ABC Pyramid, located at the foot of Mount Everest.

The hands are typing frantically those of the scientist Gianpietro cabbage: at that moment we were exchanging information to solve a problem with the audio transmission. The movie was shot with a capture device capable of operating at temperatures as prohibitive of 8000 and placed on a special helmet.

Ah ... what you see on the left is not - as you might think - a vulgar can of beer, but a sophisticated electronic device covered by military secret ... or not?

Ce have done. From today the new sensor to send weather information every hour to more valuable scientific research centers in the world. A project completely Italian very well conducted by a team of trained people and stubborn.

I have witnessed in the tests to confirm the correct transmission of data collected from the new weather station to South Col, at an altitude of 8000 meters: difficult to describe the explosion of joy of the crew, a chorus of loud applause and shouts that he joined the staff that ideally work here in Italy with members of the expedition that found on the slopes of Everest. Time needed the transmission of live images, and this time there is a small part of the work for me. Keep our fingers crossed!

Here's the press release announcing the extraordinary event:

Press release

No 008, 15 May 2008

Lobuche, Nepal - It 's a memorable one for today's science and the Italian mountaineering. In the midst of a violent storm, the climbers Italians Silvio Mondinelli, Marco Confortola and Michele enzymes have installed a meteorological station at South Col at 8,000 meters of altitude, without using oxygen. The station - by far the highest in the world - is sending a few minutes, from top of Mount Everest, given the atmosphere unique and valuable land. A great achievement, carried out in the mountaineering expedition scientific SHARE Everest 2008, led by Agostino Da Polenza, expedition leader and Chairman of the Committee EvK2Cnr. Read More »

We are the Conference "Mountains as early indicators of climate change", so I edited the draft live streaming. To watch the live, click here!

Today was presented in the draft Quirinale Share Everest 2008, for which I have cared for the realization of the website. Here's the press release of the EV-K2-CNR announcing the event.

Press release
No 002/2008 of 1 April 2008

NAPOLITANO RECEIVE SHARE EVEREST:
ITALIAN SCIENCE SALIR ON ROOF OF THE WORLD

ROME - "What science Italian arrivals at the top of the world with this flag." So the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano welcomed this morning the members of the mountaineering expedition scientific SHARE Everest 2008, led by Agostino Da Polenza. The team, which among its ranks the well-known climber Silvio "teach" Mondinelli, a few weeks will bring a temperature sensor on top all'Everest and install a climate monitoring station highest in the world, at eight thousand meters.

"I wish full success to this shipment - Napolitano said this morning delivering the Italian flag at Silvio Mondinelli, mountaineer of the Guardia di Finanza - a new challenge that will see the Italian at the forefront of climate studies at the international level. With the hope that the summit has achieved its June 2 would be a great gift for the Italian Republic. "Read the rest»